In the corporate department the partners and the associates who work on deals frequently gripe about the i-bankers, and how much money they make compared to us and how much harder we work. I don't know if they're that bad. The ones I know work pretty hard. Although they do make even more absurd amounts of money than we do. My younger brother is a first year investment banker, and his life now is even worse than my first couple of years here.

One of the 2nd year associates in Tax who used to be an IT guy logged into one of the administration people's email account and sent out this bogus email about office supplies today. Hilarious. It totally sounded like the crazy policies they put forward. There's usually some kind of really mind-numbingly stupid memo circulated around this time of year as they prepare for the summer associates to come -- dress code "clarifications" or mail delivery schedules or refrigerator leftover clean-out policies. What's even funnier about this one is how few people realize the thing that went out this morning was a joke. The tax associates are really funny, which you wouldn't think but there it is. Anyway, it's going to be a little tempest in a teapot and I expect there will be some kind of firm wide investigation into the "hacking" when the H.R. person convinces the partners that it wasn't her (if any of the partners even question the memo -- if they even READ the memo) but I'll put my money on the associate in tax over the "technology committee" of partners if it comes to that.
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